She said she went outside and saw the baby’s father attempting to put the baby into the vehicle. Washington, who works at a daycare, said she looked down from her window and saw a power line had fallen on a vehicle. “I was standing there and it made another, like, loud pop.” “At first, I wasn’t really too sure what it was, so I kind of opened the blinds and then … I realized it was the electricity pole,” Washington said. Washington said she remembered being in bed Wednesday morning and seeing a flash outside through her closed curtains. At least 11 winter storm-related deaths have been reported in Oregon since January 11. The three people who died had gotten out of the car, slipped when walking away and slid until they encountered the live and active wire, resulting in their deaths, Portland Fire and Rescue spokesperson Rick Graves said on Thursday.īack-to-back ice storms have recently slammed Oregon, knocking down trees and power lines in the state since Saturday. The incident happened Wednesday morning when a branch hit the top of a vehicle, taking a power line down with it, CNN previously reported. “I wasn’t thinking, like, ‘Oh, I could be electrocuted,’ I was more so thinking, ‘I have to grab this baby,’” said Majiah Washington, 18, who recounted her heroic actions at a news conference on Thursday. The good Samaritan who risked electrocution to save a baby in northeast Portland after a power line fell on top of a car and killed three people said she didn’t think twice about jumping in to help.
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